The Ex and Her Riches

Chapter 184

He had asked Swain to hurry back to the training facility and find Yohannes, but Swain had yet to return.

Maverick knew his own body, and he probably wouldn’t be able to hold on until Gwendolyn came home from dinner.

Is this really how I’m going to die?

He was unwilling to accept it, yet he was powerless to change it.

As of now, he did not even have the strength to write a farewell letter.

Earlier, that had been the first time Gwendolyn had hugged him since the divorce.

No, she wasn’t hugging me. She was only patting my head.

Charles was right. In the end, Gwendolyn saw Maverick as nothing more than a pet.

She no longer loved him.

As Maverick pondered on this, his consciousness gradually grew hazy, and there were black spots in his vision.

“Gwendolyn…”

I’ll give you my life, Gwendolyn, but can you give me your love in return?

Resigned to his fate, he closed his eyes and let his arms hang limply at his sides. He looked serene.

All was tranquil around him.

Apart from the curtains rustling in the breeze, the only other noise in the room was the sound of blood dripping from his fingertips onto the floor, one drop at a time.

In the car, Gwendolyn suddenly felt a sharp, intense pain in her heart.

She pressed a hand to her chest, her delicate face turning pale from the pain.

Charles noticed that something was off with her and quickly asked, “Gwen, what’s wrong? Are you unwell?”

He leaned forward, wanting to help her.

reached out to stop him. After taking a few

feel pain in my chest

heart-related illnesses, and the pain this time was

it’s because I haven’t been sleeping well for the last couple of days. Anyway, it’ll all be over in a few days’

spoke, a faint, icy gleam flashed in her

notice her darkened gaze and continued to show his sympathy

not listening to him

reason, she found herself thinking about how pale and sickly Maverick

been acting

those odd questions, such

sounded like a dying patient who could not accept his

into her

before she left the house earlier and the warning he had

that could be extremely detrimental to you. You must be cautious and

of words

the future” to exclude himself from any future events

the overwhelming sense of weakness that he couldn’t hide, and the way he had

breath hitched, and she shouted at Charles’ driver, “Pull

wrong, Gwen?”

unbuckled her seatbelt and opened the car door. “Something urgent came up. I’m afraid I won’t be able to make it to the

“Gwen—”

off when Gwendolyn

getting out of Charles’ car, she had

and Justin caught

car did not move even after Gwendolyn left; it simply stayed

the rearview mirror and watched as Gwendolyn frantically ran back to Bay Villa. At that moment, his

Gwendolyn had only just left Bay Villa when Nico once again

from the shadows when they

salary from me the last time. Today, I’m going to

remained silent, his expression cold and serious. “I’m

other two exchanged a

immediately felt a sharp pain in the back of their

three motionless figures on the ground impassively. As it turned out, tranquilizing them was much quicker and more

up his tranquilizer gun and stepped out from the shadows. “Nico, we can’t just leave them lying here, can we?

the ground, cupped his

or movement within the villa, nor was there any sign

was off. “Never mind. Let’s go and check on

worried he would not be able to explain himself to Gwendolyn after this. In the end, he and Swain climbed the

the door to the second-floor bedroom only to find Maverick lying on the chaise lounge.

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